Programming Archive

Erin Williams of the Worcester Cultural Coalition & Troy Siebels of the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts talk about the Woo Card: Opening the door to Worcester County's cultural community.

Begun in 2007 in partnership with the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, the WOO Card program has distributed some 12,000 cards exclusively to Worcester area college students as means of providing students with discounted access to area cultural venues.

In November 2009, Public WOO Cards became available for purchase by the general public for just $20.
In addition to offering well over $250 in savings, WOO Card users will also earn points each time they use their card making them eligible for monthly drawings for fantastic prizes.
Nearly 20 area cultural venues are participating in the WOO Card program, including: American Antiquarian Society, ARTSWorcester, Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, EcoTarium, Fruitlands Museum, Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, Higgins Armory Museum, Mechanics Hall, Music Worcester, Museum of Russian Icons, stART on the Street, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Traina Center for the Arts, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Chamber Music Society, Worcester Hibernian Cultural Centre and the Worcester Historical Museum.

Babysitting is really a 20th Century phenomena, that only took off in the Depression. But society’s ideas about the babysitters were often at odds with the reality, and these differences reflect a cultural battlefield that existed over the development of a teen girl culture. Did you know that for decades babysitters have tried to organize? Or that many teen girls have always been very ambivalent about babysitting? Why have babysitters been shown to be the victims of so many slasher films? Why are there so many apocryphal stories about bad babysitters? What do the answers to these questions say about how our society looks at teenage girls? Tune in to Inquiry tonight when we speak with MIRIAM FORMAN-BRUNELL about her complex and fascinating book BABYSITTER: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Professor Forman-Brunell is also the co-director of the educational website resource CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN HISTORY, which can be found at: http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/

Imagine Dante’s classic L’Inferno, told entirely through Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum comics complete with cheesy prizes and gum wrappers.  Or perhaps you would like to see Charlie Brown as Gregor Samsa and Little Lulu as Hester Prynne. Or maybe Beavis and Butthead in a production of “Waiting for Godot”. Welcome to the wild world of MASTERPIECE COMICS: WHERE CLASSICS AND COMICS COLLIDE.  Tonight, Inquiry welcomes artist, teacher and cartoonist R. SIKORYAK, who has created a unique literary art form, a surprising smash up between great literature and classic comics, many now compiled for the first time in one large insanely wonderful volume..

Inquiry continues its series of conversations with people who work at FERMILAB.  Fermilab is a leading research facility for high-energy physics as well as the United States largest proton accelerator. Tonight, we talk with MARGE BARDEEN, MANAGER OF THE FERMILAB EDUCATION OFFICE, because Fermilab is also a leader in science-education for grades K-12. For decades now,  Fermilab has reached out to students and educators around the world, offering tours, summer programs, numerous educational materials and many opportunities learn how to bring hard science back into the classroom. Tune in and learn about the Lederman Science Center, Quarknet, the Fermilab teacher resource center and their Summer Institute for Science Teachers. Fermilab has even developed a way to bring something of high energy accelerator physics right into your classroom by developing a muon detector kit. If you are a science teacher, student interested in physics or a parent don’t miss tonight’s show. The Fermilab Education Resources website can be found at: http://ed.fnal.gov/